Yet no soldier had been caught trying to get back into barracks, nor had any man been missing at roll-call unless well accounted for.
"Somewhere in this battalion, then," murmured Noll to a man in C Company, "there are four soldiers who are thieves."
"Yes," replied the soldier bluntly, "and it looks as though your bunkie at the recruit rendezvous might know something about it."
"Hal Overton doesn't know," flared Noll promptly, "or he'd have told!"
CHAPTER XVIII
THE ANONYMOUS LETTER
IT was a four days' wonder, and then it dropped.
The search at barracks had revealed nothing. There was not a soldier on the post against whom any tangible suspicion pointed.